{"id":21255,"date":"2019-06-21T15:35:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T19:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=21255"},"modified":"2019-07-05T06:01:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T10:01:39","slug":"here-we-go-alaac19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/here-we-go-alaac19\/","title":{"rendered":"Here We Go! #alaac19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brace yourself, Washington, D.C., there are a whole bunch of librarians coming your way! I love going to conference in big cities and seeing ALA librarians everywhere you look. When I checked into my hotel today, I noticed that I have a special librarian key card\u2014<em>The Princess in Black<\/em>. How cool is that? Not to mention, it was very fun to laugh with the somewhat shell-shocked staff as they commented on just how many librarians they\u2019ve seen already. And this party is just getting started!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m getting ready to go the opening general session where author Jason Reynolds will be speaking. What an awesome way to open up the conference! After that, it\u2019s the exhibit opening, and meeting up with friends. In the next few days, I\u2019m looking forward to hearing author Tomi Adeyemi speak, and I\u2019m also planning on attending the Leadership &amp; ALSC Meeting, where we\u2019ll get a chance to hear some new thoughts from Kathleen Campana, J. Elizabeth Mills, Marianne Martens, and Claudia Hines about media literacy, computational thinking, and family learning.<\/p>\n<p>There are many programs that focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and I couldn\u2019t be more excited to learn all that I can. I\u2019m especially interested in attending \u201cTalking with Kids about Race,\u201d which is a how-to workshop. And then there&#8217;s the Charlemae Rollins\u00a0Presidents Program, &#8220;Subversive Activism: Creating Social Change Through Libraries, Children\u2019s Literature, and Art,&#8221; which looks really amazing, too.<\/p>\n<p>I could go on and on&#8230;ALSC 101, the Caldecott-Newbery-Legacy Banquet&#8230;yay! It\u2019s going to be quite a conference. Bring it on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brace yourself, Washington, D.C., there are a whole bunch of librarians coming your way! I love going to conference in big cities and seeing ALA librarians everywhere you look. When I checked into my hotel today, I noticed that I have a special librarian key card\u2014The Princess in Black. How cool is that? Not to mention, it was very fun to laugh with the somewhat shell-shocked staff as they commented on just how many librarians they\u2019ve seen already. And this party is just getting started! I\u2019m getting ready to go the opening general session where author Jason Reynolds will be speaking. What an awesome way to open up the conference! After that, it\u2019s the exhibit opening, and meeting up with friends. In the next few days, I\u2019m looking forward to hearing author Tomi Adeyemi speak, and I\u2019m also planning on attending the Leadership &amp; ALSC Meeting, where we\u2019ll get a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1739,134,151,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-annual-2019","category-guest-blogger","category-live-blogging","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}